About:
Vinterskolen is initiated for activities of visual communication and critical thinking.
Participation:
The second edition of Vinterskolen is open for 24 participants interested in communication design, wood work, perfumery and critical thinking. 8 spots are reserved for KD students from HfG Karlsruhe and another 8 for MFA students of KASK Ghent. The remaining 8 spots can be participants not enrolled to any specific institution.
Participants will be selected on the basis of a short motivational description.
Apply:
Please send an email to with this document attached to: vinterskolen@orbivraa.dk by December 10th 2024 at 12:00
Costs:
The course, accommodation (incl. food and drinks), is 40 euros pr. night.
Participants must cover their own expenses for transportation.
All meals are organized and prepared together.
Travel:
Travel is made by either train (arrival Vamdrup station) or preferably a shared car.
Teachers:
Line-Gry Hørup,
Graphic designer, writer, editor and professor at HfG Karlsruhe.
Julie Héneault,
Graphic designer of studio Espace Ness and teacher at KASK Ghent.
Paul Bernhard,
Wood worker, designer and programmer.
Niklaus Mettler,
Designer and perfumer at In’n’Out Fragrances and Air Solutions.
Schedule:
Sunday 23/2: Arrival afternoon-evening. Welcoming dinner together
Monday 24/2-1/3: Activities (see bottom of page)
Sunday 2/3:
Cleaning, saying bye and departure.
On The Other Hand
When:
23 february – 2 march 2025
Where:
Vrå, Southern Jutland
About both hands:
We talked for a little while and it seems we agreed on a language. An accumulation of words and signs that we trust in. Questions were raised: When did this happen and how did this come about? Was it before- or afterhand?
What if the expression on one hand and on the other hand, instead of expressing conflicting perceptions, could be freely used to multiply the same perceptions?*
On the one hand, we will lead a practical inquiry to any process between the idea and the result, and on the other we will build a maintainable and editable cooking recipes ressource binder.
If on the one hand you do not feel any desire for scents, or rather the presence of odour, then on the other hand invisible molecules of pine can be released from physical sources within the forest, travel through the air to noses, and eventually form sensations and enter your brain.
*thought experiment part of Ariane Koch’s novel Overstaying, 2024.
Is the invisible material, that smell of an apricot, carrying a piece of fruit inside my body?
During Vinterskolen we will present air as a prospect for creating an invisible space—an opportunity for thinking and designing with air and scent through methods of woodworking, scent design, and pneumatic and thermal experiments.
Methodologies:
It seems to me there are mainly two kinds of accuracy. The first is the accuracy of the machine, of industry; an accuracy that allows for no deviation. A process is set up, the work is done, the result is certain — certain, that is, on the level one has chosen. The second kind of accuracy is what i’d like to call the accuracy of intent.
– James Krenov, The Impractical Cabinetmaker
thought — process — result
A common way of working wood, seems to be linear. Thoughts are brought to a problem; the adequate method is chosen and processed: a result is produced. An example: to dimension a piece of wood to a certain thickness; I will set up the thickness planer machine, feed the piece into one side of the machine and wait for it on the other side of the machine: the piece now has this certain thickness. Wasn’t there a wormhole here?
The actual work is happening while I – the operator – am wandering around the machine, waiting impatiently for this piece of wood, as I had envisioned. During this one process, time was chopped up into two chunks: before me; a piece of wood, and after me; with a thinner piece of wood.
thought
/ \
| process |
\ /
result
If the working process is circular we will work in a progressive feedback. Back to our example: to dimension a piece of wood to a certain thickness; I will gradually plane it down with a handplane, judging after each pass whether and how to go on.
In this conversation — with oneself – thought and result are looping, the boundaries of cause-and-effect fade. The result, that wasn’t conceived beforehand, might result afterhand.
Activities:
( 1 ) Depict a ( phenomenological ) map of ORBI
( 2 ) Assemble a cookbook for larger groups
( 3 ) Consider methodologies of wood work
( 4 ) Theory (film) night on printmaking and bell casting
( 5 ) Thermosiphon studies of “saunagus”
( 6 ) Maintenance of The Greatest Hits Library
Workspace for printing (continued):
For the first edition of Vinterskolen, students from HfG Karlsruhe researched previous off-site independant art and theory schools(assembled as a reader), made books for the library at ORBI as well as establishing a printing press and workspace.
Setting up the printshop will continue during the second edition of Vinterskolen, with a special focus on ink production and silkscreen pigments.
